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If something needs to be sorted out, it is not with Mr. Schwab, but Mr. Mason. If there is a claim there, the way to handle it is to knock on Mr. Mason's door and talk to him like a gentleman in a calm and reasonable way. If there is a genuine misunderstanding, I suspect it will be sorted out. I have not heard many people running down Mr. Mason before. The fact that this complaint comes to the boards before it goes to the man himself is an odd thing in my opinion. Who does business like this and expects good things to come from it? Who gives away an old and toothless dog to someone they
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The humans on these boards are a wonder. You are dog men you say? OK then, let's think a bit about the dog, eh? The dog in question was given away free at the start, and given away free again when it had lost all its teeth and could no longer work. Now think of that -- a dog that has worked hard and given it's life for an owner and yet the dog is now deemed scrap and has no warm dry spot next to the hearth in old age and with the person who raised it? That's not a fair deal by my count. Would you want that for yourself? And yet, that's the way it is among so many people who think
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Eamon -- I've never judged a dog show in my life and don't expect to ever do do. Been asked, and the answer is no. The other Burns (a common name here as well as there) is involved with Patterdales and seems a nice enough guy but lives in a part of this country where nothing is found to ground -- I'm sure he used to live elsewhere. I know no more, but I dig dogs, do not breed them, do not show them, and do not trade them -- ever. Lot of crap tossed about on these boards -- more dirt tossed with a key board than with a shovel, as Chris has noticed. Lots of kids typing, and not much is accu
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I am in the USA. Not sure why that is a good thing, other than we can hunt all year long and have no shortage of quarry, and no antis breathing down our neck The Mark III locator is crap in my opinion -- fine for ferreting I suppose, but far too fragile for terrier work. It is made of very thin plastic, and would not last up under a bite or even casual wear, plus it needs to be taped to keep out water. I was loaned a unit to test, and I was afraid I would break it just on loan. The ferreters need a very small unit, but with the dogs we need something that can take a little bit abuse,
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I do not breed dogs and generally spay and neuter my dogs, but I have owned enough intact males in my life that I notice that it's always the female vets that are eager to neuter a male dog "for his health" -- never mind what your intentions for the dog are, or any evidence to support the assertions being made. When the recommendation to castrate a dog is made, I always make it a point to get real close to the vet (a little *too* close, if you know what I mean) and look them right in the eye when I ask: "And have you recommended this procedure to your husband as well?" P
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I am pleased to see genuine and vocal disgust at baiting. The difference between hunting with terriers and baiting is not subtle, and it's important to defend the former while rejecting the latter. If you go through the links to all the other German Hunt terriers web sites listed, you will that find most are to show dog sites or to folks that are also engaged in artificial earthwork of one form or another. Why the use of all these artificial earths? I think one factor is that many German Hunt Terriers are too big to get to ground in a natural earth, and so it's fake work or
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That's a great picture of the line up of terriers with the rats in front -- GREAT. What I like about it is that it shows the DIVERSITY of working dogs. P
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Sadly, this freak is being called an "American Pit Bull". In fact, the back-of-the-magazine ads are full of dogs like this -- huge chests with legs that look stuck on, over weight, over large heads, and dogs that can barely move. These dogs are FAR far from the lean, well-moving stock-working dogs we still have in the U.S. to move cattle and catch wild pig. The over large, beam-chested freaks like the one pictured are dogs bred by folks who want a big tough-looking dog to parade around. The dogs and their owner waddle around on street corners and at the edges of parks with a massive dog
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I have been having a bit of fun with Mike Hobday the current nincompoop who is PR director of LACS and, I can assure you, does not know his ass from a can of soup. He is very kind to tell us all, however, that he lives in Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, is studying part-time for an MBA at the University of Hertfordshire., lives locally in London Colney with his wife Jane, children Jonathan, Ellesha and Carli and Dan the cat. :whistle: Mike Hobday Excellent! Just what we need -- being lectured about conservation and wildlife values from someone who has three children and who
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A bit of sleep disorder kicked in, and as a consequence I found some new stuff of amusement on LACS. It turns out former LACS Public Relations director Miles Cooper has had a change of opinion on fox hunting. As he noted in an interview last year: I have put up some other fun bits and links (complete with video from the BBC) here for those interesting this kind of stuff >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/...unting-act.html Nice to see the old Ex. Dir and Preident bitch-slapping the LACS in public with a little truth. :whistle: P
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Always interesting , but also useful to put in context. A lot of folks get confused as to what terrier work is, and our enemies like to breed that confusion and blur the edges trying to associate legitimate terrier work with stuff the intelligent will have nothing to do with. Putting a point on the difference between baiting a badger and hunting a badger (or baiting and hunting anything, for that matter) is how you protect your sport. Context is important. As for "Don't drink the Koolaid," the expression comes from the tragedy that grew out of Jonestown (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Let's not drink the Koolaid on all this "teastas mor" stuff, eh This was an invented thing that did not work out very well, and it continues to confuse people who think badger baiting and badger hunting are the same. They are not, and the more a point is put on that pencil the better. For a true history, see here >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2006/...y-leads-to.html
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The notion that the work gene washes out of terriers quickly is not well proved. What is well proved is that KC people rarely work their dogs and because they breed for head form above all else (head shape and size is more imortant than anything else in most KC terrier breed standards) they generally breed a dog that ends up too large in the chest. Chest size is what has killed most KC terriers. Get a proper-sized dog in the hands of a person who will actually take the dog out digging quite a lot (a dog is not made in a day) and you may have a very good thing. The fact that this is so rare,
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A very good read For ordering and/or for reviews of other books, see >> http://www.terrierman.com/terrierbooks.htm
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All of this obsession with locator collars reminds me of the folks that think the brand of shoes they play in will determine their score in the game. Guess what? It doesn't. The game is not about the shoes. The same can be said for locator collars. With rare exception it hardly matters what kind of locator collar you use. In truth, the old Mark I collar was not that hard to tape up and keep dry, and the new Deben LRT, Bellman and Flint, or any other system being used is far beyond what most folks will ever need to keep their dogs safe. The number of folks digging more than 40 feet
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In my opinion, it's a bit silly to talk about an "ultimate" working terrier. The goal with terrier work should not for a mediocre owner to pray that he or she stumbles on an exceptional working dog; it should be for more terrier owners to yearn to take average working dogs and elevate them to greatness by giving them a tremendous amount of field experience. And yet we do not hear this sentiment expressed very often. We live in a world of one-minute rice and dial-up miracles, and above all we live in a world of advertising and hype. Everything has to be "new and improved" and dogs have t
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If you stay with a dog and give it experience, in the end it will probably do the same for you. Nothing fails a dog more than a human that will quit on it. Have patience and soon enough the dog will likely have perseverance. P
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If, by "Sealyham," you mean a ** Kennel Club registered ** terrier, you are unlikely to find a working dog. If you are willing to accept any short-legged thick-bodied white terrier that looks the part as a "Sealyham terrier" you will find some cross mix of a Russell that will look the part and which may make you quite happy. Will this thick-bodied and short-legged dog work underground? That question will not be determined by genetics alone; at least as big a factor is how much experience you give the dog. Owners disappoint dogs more than dogs disappoint owners. The greatest booster of
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17 feet and no quarry? You might go over the instruction manual with that dog again All kidding aside, I am glad it all worked out, and the dog is back home healthy. To find out where you might yet get to if you keep digging, see >> here >> http://map.pequenopolis.com/ Let's just say at a certain point, you might want to have a decent snorkel! P
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There are a lot of battery options which are mechanically interchangeable: Duracell D375H or D393; Panasonic SR44W or SP357 or ST48W or SP393; Ray-O-Vac RW42 or RW48; or an Ever Ready BSR 44H or BSR 48H or BSR 48L or any button battery labeled "AG-13". Setting aside brands and numbers, not all bateries are alike chemically. Two different chemical compositions are commonly offered -- silver oxide and alkaline. What's the difference? For our purposes, not much. Silver oxide batteries will last 15% to 35% longer than alkaline batteries, but they cost so much more that they are simply not wo
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To both close wounds and to cover areas such as you describe, you can use either VetBond or regular old SuperGlue. >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2006/...t-for-pack.html Patrick
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If this board has as many people digging their dogs and posting pictures as they have people ragging on plummer terriers (which are just a color variant of a Jack Russell for God's sake), it would be a much more interesting board. Instead, we have seven-dig experts (if they have dug anything) slagging off people who are posting genuine pictures of recent digs on their own dogs. Some of the incredulity is a bit amusing too. If you say you have never dug on a dog and had it come out unsoiled, I would suggest you might need to dig a little more. It happens all the time, depending on the
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Squirrel is good stuff -- a very clean animal that eats clean wholesome food. Not a lot of meat, as noted, but 6 or 7 makes a stew, a nice lot of gravy for biscuits, a little meat for a burito, etc. Do not eat squirrel brains -- there is a prion disease associated with these (think MadCow and you have the right idea), but the meat itself is fine. If you want a lot of meat for not much hunting effort, shoot a cow. There's reason we ranch cattle and not squirrels P.
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As soon as I heard Marty Stouffer's voice on this YouTube clip, I had to smile. For those of you who don't know how these nature shows are shot, the scenes like this are filmed in large enclosures (often several acres or more) with tame animals. I have seen Stouffer pair up animals that are never found in the same part of this country -- an astounding thing for someone to do in a nature show. I am not trying to knock Stouffer -- I am just saying that his shows are nature that is not always natural. These folks are on money-making production schedules and are not always sitting in bli
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